Perspective
Jul. 15, 2011
A sea change to retransmission landscape in TV
Content providers are coming to the negotiating table with far more bargaining power than they used to wield. By Jonathan A. Loeb and Sara Rezvanpour of Bingham McCutchen LLP
Four million subscribers nationwide staring at test patterns on their television screens; this was the potential disaster Time Warner Cable faced in late 2010 when it reached an impasse in its negotiations with Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. over Sinclair's demand for higher retransmission fees. Luckily for Time Warner Cable subscribers, the parties reached an agreement in early 2011 and television programming was uninte...
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